Jordan Peele has admitted that the message he tried to convey with his Oscar-nominated movie Get Out was that the conversation around race is ‘never done’.

The movie was the surprise hit of 2017, taking in hundreds of millions at the box office and finding itself nominated for best picture, director for Peele, original screenplay and best actor for Daniel Kaluuya.

It has become one of the most talked about movies of the year and speaking to ABC, Peele revealed: ‘I think the message I was trying to convey is that we’re never done with the conversation about race.

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The film is considered an unlikely winner for best picture though – and one of the people on the Oscars voting panel was turned right off the film, admitting that they believed it played ‘the race card’.

‘It’s a good B-movie and I enjoyed it, but what bothered me afterwards was that instead of focusing on the fact that this was an entertaining little horror movie that made quite a bit of money, they started trying to suggest it had deeper meaning than it does, and, as far as I’m concerned, they played the race card, and that really turned me off,’ the female Academy member revealed.

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